Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them::Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    That’s 10 years of support

    I work on an OS whose oldest in-service major release will finally go deprecated in its TWENTY-SEVENTH year of life.

    We’re not getting upset at a mere decade. 10 years is kinda cute.

    I think people are posse dat the boeing-like “safety is an add-on” mentality that sells security patches like a “don’t nose in” feature on a max8.

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      11 months ago

      Congrats on being in a low functioning desktop niche environment which is probably unusable for most users. Nearly every distro has an eol.

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            11 months ago

            ew, LTS user. lol.
            Actually, 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) doesn’t go EOL until 2028 : ubuntu release cycle, and Ubuntu is very much targeted at enterprise users, it’s what Canonical’s entire profit model is focused around.
            The thing is, one version of a distro going EOL doesn’t turn a shitload of hardware into e-waste.
            The drivers have to be dropped from the kernel to truly be EOL which doesn’t happen until nearly everyone has already moved on which could be 20y possibly even more from when the hardware was first manufactured. Meanwhile my 2018 & 2020 hp laptops are completely dropped in Windows 11.

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              11 months ago

              The EOL is 2023, the pro support EOL is 2028.

              While I get what you’re saying, everything is echoed pretty easily to windows, apart from the fact that it doesn’t have distros (for the most part.)

              And to be clear, Windows 11 can be installed on any device Windows 10 can, just needs a clean install and/or some tweaking.

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                11 months ago

                I’ve tried installing Windows 11 on my 2020 HP laptop. It does not work, no amount of tinkering will save it.

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                    11 months ago

                    Doesn’t work.
                    Just to be clear, it’s not a TPM issue or anything like that. It’s pure driver fuckery.
                    Which might be on HP or Microsoft, idk. But either way, Windows 11 will not work. Windows 11 won’t work on the 2018 laptop either, but that’s a spec issue.